Directional Orientation
Early Medicine
History
Directional Planes
General Locations
100
Nearest to the head.
What is superior?
100
The functions of an organism.
What is physiology?
100
An act stating that dissections were allowed on murderers as an alternative to hanging in chains.
What is the Murder Act of 1752?
100
The plane dividing the body vertically into anterior and posterior.
What is frontal?
100
Referring to the knee area.
What is geniculate?
200
Toward the front.
What is anterior?
200
The study of anatomy concerned with the features of the body visible to the naked eye.
What is gross anatomy?
200
The term for stealing bodies from graves.
What is body snatching?
200
The plane dividing the body vertically into anterior and posterior sections; referring to the crown of the head.
What is coronal?
200
Referring to the eye area.
What is ocular?
300
Nearest to the midline of the body.
What is medial.
300
The ability to suppress physical and emotional responses.
What is clinical detachment?
300
Credited with publishing the first anatomy book in 1543.
Who is Vesalius?
300
The lengthwise plane that divides the body into equal halves.
What is midsagittal?
300
Referring to the foot area?
What is pedal?
400
A body part that is below another.
What is inferior?
400
Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
400
This red and white striped object symbolizes blood and bandages.
What is the barber pole?
400
The plane dividing the body horizontally into upper and lower sections.
What is transverse?
400
Referring to the collar bone area?
What is clavicular?
500
A body part located far from an attachment point.
What is distal?
500
Discovered circulation of blood and also dissected his father and sister.
Who is William Harvey?
500
Feeling a structure with a fingertip.
What is palpation?
500
Lengthwise planes dividing the body into unequal left and right halves, it runs parallel to sagittal planes.
What is parasagittal?
500
Referring to the shoulder area?
What is acromial?
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